Elon Musk Tradeoff; The Streisand Effect; & Bitcoin Game Theory
Mak Kemenosh
Show notes
Mak Kemenosh is a Venture Capital / Private Equity Talent Evaluator, Startup Founder, Surfer, and longtime Bitcoin Maximalist. Mak originally began investing in Bitcoin back in 2015 and currently keeps 99% of his financial assets in BTC. He has lived coast-to-coast over the past decade and his extensive startup experience has included companies in the logistics, aviation, and financial services industries. (***TIMESTAMPS are listed down below in the description—as well as in the video comments)
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TIMESTAMPS
6:18 - The religiousness of Bitcoin; Mak’s early days of finding Bitcoin through gold; People can’t get ahead; Money & Health; Money as Tech; Government open to BTC?; Problems with The Fed; “The Bitcoin Standard” by Saifedean Ammous
23:50 - Peter Schiff; Transaction speed of Bitcoin; Bitcoin is like the sun; FDR & the gold bullion recall; Germany post WWI & Venezuela as examples of government currency manipulation gone wrong
40:34 - Who is the real Satoshi Nakamoto?; the Cyprus Crisis of 2013 that drove Bitcoin adoption; Bitcoin as a unit of account; Mak’s earliest days in crypto; Bitcoin in 2021 and beyond; The top-down nature of money & BTC; Bitcoin is freedom; private keys explained; The media is terrible; The tradeoff of critical thinking for safety
1:06:11 - Politicians in Covid; Ron DeSantis & Francis Suarez; One issue voters; Barack Obama and the drones question; Osama Bin Laden; Sound money means no wars?; Janet Yellen & Nepotism; The Cantillon Effect
1:26:24 - New York City in Covid; “The State has become God”; End of Roman Empire vibes?; What’s going on Miami right now; Self-driving cars and Covid 19
1:40:40 - Julian recounts his recent visit to NYC; With political ruin of Covid can an outside-the-system thing like Bitcoin “win?”;
1:49:00 - Brainwashing through repetition (with video of KGB Defector, Yuri Bezmenov’s 1984 warning to America about this very problem); Revisiting Nick Gurol’s Flat-Earth Psychology experiment with his round-earth-doubting students (from TRENDIFIER #37 - Nick Gurol)
1:56:28 - What were we doing a year ago when the Pandemic started?; Covid destroyed critical thinking; Jeffrey Epstein and how he is the ultimate symbol of the Fiat Currency System;
2:04:52 - Are all Bitcoiners “good people?”; Bitcoin faucets; Laszlo Hanyecz and the first exchange of Bitcoin for pizza; Bitcoin as a core pillar of basic human needs; The energy usage of Bitcoin mining and why Mak thinks Bitcoin mining will be beneficial to the environment in the long run
2:26:42 - Did Satoshi own BTC ahead of its first day trading on January 3rd, 2009?; Satoshi is Jesus; “I’m here to end the Federal Reserve”; Prominent Bitcoiner, Russell Okung, and his video tweet of the lint roller security guard; We’re at an inflection point in history
2:34:40 - Libertarians, Libertarianism, & Bitcoin; “The Fourth Turning” & Societal Cycles; Can we live in a world of total personal responsibility?; Breaking down the problems with the healthcare system; Covid should’ve been a massive AB Test; Why Trump left office as a member of the swamp; Can BTC be adopted in our two party world?; “It’s time to flip the board over”
2:50:46 - Why Altcoins feature so many scams; Ripple & XRP; Double Spend explained; Revisiting Mak’s days investing in TRON; Mak’s 99 Percent Bitcoin portfolio; We have more in common with our neighbors than we think
3:06:05 - Bitcoin can be a unifier; How the powerful classes divide the lower classes along political lines to distract them from rising up against the real problems in society; “Thoughtful is crazy now”; Jack Dorsey & Censorship discussion; The slippery slope that has Mak worried about the First & Second Amendments
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Chapters
Timestamps seek the player Chapters.
- 6:18 The religiousness of Bitcoin; Mak’s early days of finding Bitcoin through gold; People can’t get ahead; Money & Health; Money as Tech; Government open to BTC?; Problems with The Fed; “The Bitcoin Standard” by Saifedean Ammous
- 23:50 Peter Schiff; Transaction speed of Bitcoin; Bitcoin is like the sun; FDR & the gold bullion recall; Germany post WWI & Venezuela as examples of government currency manipulation gone wrong
- 40:34 Who is the real Satoshi Nakamoto?; the Cyprus Crisis of 2013 that drove Bitcoin adoption; Bitcoin as a unit of account; Mak’s earliest days in crypto; Bitcoin in 2021 and beyond; The top-down nature of money & BTC; Bitcoin is freedom; private keys explained; The media is terrible; The tradeoff of critical thinking for safety
- 1:06:11 Politicians in Covid; Ron DeSantis & Francis Suarez; One issue voters; Barack Obama and the drones question; Osama Bin Laden; Sound money means no wars?; Janet Yellen & Nepotism; The Cantillon Effect
- 1:26:24 New York City in Covid; “The State has become God”; End of Roman Empire vibes?; What’s going on Miami right now; Self-driving cars and Covid 19
- 1:40:40 Julian recounts his recent visit to NYC; With political ruin of Covid can an outside-the-system thing like Bitcoin “win?”;
- 1:49:00 Brainwashing through repetition (with video of KGB Defector, Yuri Bezmenov’s 1984 warning to America about this very problem); Revisiting Nick Gurol’s Flat-Earth Psychology experiment with his round-earth-doubting students (from TRENDIFIER #37 - Nick Gurol)
- 1:56:28 What were we doing a year ago when the Pandemic started?; Covid destroyed critical thinking; Jeffrey Epstein and how he is the ultimate symbol of the Fiat Currency System;
- 2:04:52 Are all Bitcoiners “good people?”; Bitcoin faucets; Laszlo Hanyecz and the first exchange of Bitcoin for pizza; Bitcoin as a core pillar of basic human needs; The energy usage of Bitcoin mining and why Mak thinks Bitcoin mining will be beneficial to the environment in the long run
- 2:26:42 Did Satoshi own BTC ahead of its first day trading on January 3rd, 2009?; Satoshi is Jesus; “I’m here to end the Federal Reserve”; Prominent Bitcoiner, Russell Okung, and his video tweet of the lint roller security guard; We’re at an inflection point in history
- 2:34:40 Libertarians, Libertarianism, & Bitcoin; “The Fourth Turning” & Societal Cycles; Can we live in a world of total personal responsibility?; Breaking down the problems with the healthcare system; Covid should’ve been a massive AB Test; Why Trump left office as a member of the swamp; Can BTC be adopted in our two party world?; “It’s time to flip the board over”
- 2:50:46 Why Altcoins feature so many scams; Ripple & XRP; Double Spend explained; Revisiting Mak’s days investing in TRON; Mak’s 99 Percent Bitcoin portfolio; We have more in common with our neighbors than we think
- 3:06:05 Bitcoin can be a unifier; How the powerful classes divide the lower classes along political lines to distract them from rising up against the real problems in society; “Thoughtful is crazy now”; Jack Dorsey & Censorship discussion; The slippery slope that has Mak worried about the First & Second Amendments
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